Lord Byron Quotes

This quiet sail is as a noiseless wing To waft me from distraction.

Lord Byron

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• When I go abroad I always sail from Boston because it is such a pleasant place to get away from.

  

  Oliver Herford
  • Always
  • Place
  • Sail

• Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader - not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Feeling

• The first time I went to Johnny Depp's house in LA is when I realized what I was getting myself into. I knew he was famous, but I didn't really know what that entailed.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Time
  • House
  • Myself

• If I wasn't acting, I would sail professionally. Nowhere specific, but I'd sail to Bermuda, South Africa, ya know, get paid to race in Regattas, I think that'd be pretty rad.

  

  Jack Falahee
  • Think
  • Pretty
  • Acting

• The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.

  

  Carl von Clausewitz
  • Surprise
  • Speed
  • Secrecy

• I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Think
  • Year
  • Sunday

• Voluntary self-directed religion was more dangerous to the Church than any number of infidels.

  

  Barbara W. Tuchman
  • Church

• Some fans get genuinely upset if I admit that a song that they held close to their heart was not based on actual events in my life. Like 'What Sarah Said': I was never in a waiting room in a hospital waiting for news that somebody was going to die.

  

  Ben Gibbard Death Cab for Cutie
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Song

• Distances did nothing. It’s all here.

  

  Antonio Porchia
  • Nothing
  • Here
  • Did

• I'm a fountain of blood. In the shape of a girl.

  

  Bjork
  • Girl

• Chanel is a very important vendor for Neiman Marcus. My favorite thing is the way they finish off the hems on dresses and jackets.

  

  Karen Katz
  • Important

• So if I design it and then go away, it's still living somewhere and it still exists by itself without me.

  

  Marc Newson
  • Design

• Some defeats are only installments to victory.

  

  Jacob Riis
  • Victory

• 'Tracks' is based on the book by Robyn Davidson who, in the mid-Seventies, decided to leave the city, go to the outback, learn to train camels and walk across the Australian desert to the ocean: a journey that is about two thousand miles and will take about six or seven months.

  

  John Curran
  • Book
  • City
  • Journey

• The days of peace and slumberous calm are fled.

  

  John Keats
  • Peace
  • Calm

• Back in the 1980s, when I was a lowly editorial assistant by day and trying to be a novelist by night, no god reigned so supreme as the god of literary prose.

  

  Jean Hanff Korelitz
  • God
  • Trying
  • Night

• Social media is a giant distraction to the ultimate aim, which is honing your craft as a songwriter. There are people who are exceptional at it, however, and if you can do both things, then that's fantastic, but if you are a writer, the time is better spent on a clever lyric than a clever tweet.

  

  Bryan Adams
  • People
  • Time
  • Media

• It’s better to live as “Mr. Good guy” to a few people who trust you rather than living as “Mr. Perfect” to many people who talk behind you.

  

  Vijay Sethupathi
  • People
  • Good
  • Live

• A thin line separates destiny from coincidence.

  

  T. J. Stiles
  • Destiny

• The librarian of today, and it will be true still more of the librarians of tomorrow, are not fiery dragons interposed between the people and the books. They are useful public servants, who manage libraries in the interest of the public . . . Many still think that a great reader, or a writer of books, will make an excellent librarian. This is pure fallacy.

  

  William Osler
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Book

• If a man has so much heat he burns your skin when he touches you, he's the devil. Run away

  

  Sarah Addison Allen
  • Running
  • Devil
  • Skins

• By consequence, or train of thoughts, I understand that succession of one thought to another which is called, to distinguish it from discourse in words, mental discourse. When a man thinketh on anything whatsoever, his next thought after is not altogether so casual as it seems to be. Not every thought to every thought succeeds indifferently.

  

  Thomas Hobbes
  • Consequence
  • Discourse
  • Succeeds

• This quiet sail is as a noiseless wing To waft me from distraction.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Distraction
  • Sail
  • Wing